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package org.axonframework.eventhandling;

/**
 * Specialist interface for implementations of an event listener that redirect actual processing to another instance.
 *
 * @author Allard Buijze
 * @since 0.6
 */
public interface EventListenerProxy extends EventListener {

    /**
     * Returns the instance type that this proxy delegates all event handling to.
     *
     * @return the instance type that this proxy delegates all event handling to
     */
    Class<?> getTargetType();
}
